Apple‘s iCloud Photo Library is a great online backup service, but even online sync services need to be backed up. iCloud Photo Library service works seamlessly to sync and back up your images and video across all of your devices. But if you’re serious about keeping your irreplaceable photos and video safe, you’ll want a second backup. Because as they always say, better safe than sorry. Backing up your photos can take the form of a local backup on your own drive or an external source, a secondary online backup, or both. Here’s how to do it all.
The best way to back up the images and video in iCloud Photo Library is to make sure you’re downloading all your content onto your Mac. But note that, If you plan to back up your entire digital library to your Mac’s hard drive, you’ll likely want to do it on a desktop Mac with a 1TB drive or higher. Otherwise, consider backing up to an external drive.
Your Mac will now download full-resolution copies of all your images to your Mac’s hard drive, stored inside your Photos app library.
There are two ways to back up your iCloud Photo Library to an external drive: by backing up your Library automatically, or manually. (You can also export sections of your library if you don’t want to back up the whole thing.)
If you’ve turned on the Download Originals option for your Photos library, you can back up your Photos library as part of your regular backup routine. Whether you use Time Machine or clone your hard drive using SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy, your Photos library will be backed up as well. (And if you don’t currently use a backup service, well… now’s a good time to start!)
If you’ve turned on the Download Originals option for your Photos library but don’t want to back it up automatically, you can always copy your Photos library to an external drive at regular intervals.
You can set a bi-weekly reminder for these steps, so you keep your Photos library regularly backed up.
If you don’t want to back up your entire library, you can export individual images and videos to your external drive.
Even though your entire Library is stored online in iCloud, it’s worth considering a second online backup as one of your saviours.
If you already use a service to back up your hard drive and you’ve synced your full Photo Library to your Mac, it’s easy to back it all up. You can use Backblaze, Carbonite, Arq, or simply any other application.
If you don’t store your iCloud images locally, this is a bit trickier: you can use the external drive method to export portions of your library to an external drive, then sync that drive to your preferred online backup service, but it’s a bit more labour-intensive. In general, this is why I tend to recommend backing up your full library to your Mac or storing a library on an external drive.
Even though Apple’s iCloud Photo Library is one of the best backup and storage application, it’s not a bad thing to keep a backup of the back. For the rare but not never incompetence of this backup service, it’s better to have a second option. There are a few options for you to choose from about how you want to store your precious images and videos.
Which option do you use to backup your pictures of Library? Do tell us in the comments below.
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